The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania Theology Explores the implications of ecumenism

Explores the implications of ecumenism for believers' baptism

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The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania Theology Explores the implications of ecumenismExamines the development of cloth manufacture in early Pennsylvania from its roots in seventeenth century Europe to the beginning of industrialization. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, combined with a quantitative approach, the author argues that in contrast to New England, rural Pennsylvania women spun the yarn that a small group of trained male artisans wove into cloth on a commercial basis throughout the eighteenth century. Their